A Glimpse Of My Garden

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Come take a peek at what's happening in the garden. Things are growing like crazy from all the rain we've been getting. Although I much prefer the sunshine, I am grateful for the heaven-sent break from watering.

We harvested our first artichoke (the big one below) two days ago. So good! These are shockingly easy to grow here in the northeast. Try some next year - you won't regret it. But make sure you leave room - they need some space.

About two weeks ago, I noticed these pretty little flowers on one of our many potato plants. Then this week, these little fruits appeared. They look like tiny tomatoes but they are the fruit of the potato plant! Who knew??? But you can't eat them since they're filled with solanine which is toxic to humans. I'm just going to hope it's also toxic to chipmunks...

The beans we planted are up and just beginning to climb (this picture is a few weeks old - they've grown a bunch.)

There are also tons of tomatoes growing. The plants have become trees and my husband is just trying to keep up with them - this year, he's experimenting with stringing twine down from above. So far so good.

And the sweet potato vines are starting to explore their cardboard-covered bed.

Planted a backyard garden this summer and also last summer and neither year turned out. But maybe it's a good thing. As much as I like the idea of gardening and growing our own food, there are two (kind of) contradictory reasons why growing our own food isn't our best option:1) we don't really eat a lot of veggies...fresh fruit is more our thing2) the veggies that we do eat, we eat A LOT of...like, so much that we don't have enough room to grow enough to put a dent in our grocery bill.It sucks to come to the realization that something you enjoy just isn't working out, but I think we're going to forget the gardening thing until we have more space in our yard to dedicate to it. I love reading other people's experiences- this was great, Eve!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

A Glimpse Of My Garden

Come take a peek at what's happening in the garden. Things are growing like crazy from all the rain we've been getting. Although I much prefer the sunshine, I am grateful for the heaven-sent break from watering.

We harvested our first artichoke (the big one below) two days ago. So good! These are shockingly easy to grow here in the northeast. Try some next year - you won't regret it. But make sure you leave room - they need some space.

About two weeks ago, I noticed these pretty little flowers on one of our many potato plants. Then this week, these little fruits appeared. They look like tiny tomatoes but they are the fruit of the potato plant! Who knew??? But you can't eat them since they're filled with solanine which is toxic to humans. I'm just going to hope it's also toxic to chipmunks...

The beans we planted are up and just beginning to climb (this picture is a few weeks old - they've grown a bunch.)

There are also tons of tomatoes growing. The plants have become trees and my husband is just trying to keep up with them - this year, he's experimenting with stringing twine down from above. So far so good.

And the sweet potato vines are starting to explore their cardboard-covered bed.

Planted a backyard garden this summer and also last summer and neither year turned out. But maybe it's a good thing. As much as I like the idea of gardening and growing our own food, there are two (kind of) contradictory reasons why growing our own food isn't our best option:1) we don't really eat a lot of veggies...fresh fruit is more our thing2) the veggies that we do eat, we eat A LOT of...like, so much that we don't have enough room to grow enough to put a dent in our grocery bill.It sucks to come to the realization that something you enjoy just isn't working out, but I think we're going to forget the gardening thing until we have more space in our yard to dedicate to it. I love reading other people's experiences- this was great, Eve!